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PowerPoint 12's Eye Candy

Brendan Busch, the Group Program Manager for the PowerPoint and Office graphics group (my group) started up a blog. His first post is a nice overview of our focus areas for PowerPoint "12". Office and PowerPoint have become almost universally known for ugly, dated graphics. How man...

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Wayne's ...oft Blog — December 23 05

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Company Store

ActiveWin has up some pictures of the Microsoft company store. One of the nice benefits of working at Microsoft is being able to buy software at a nice discount. I was so in awe of the prices when I first went that I bought all this stuff I never use. I think I still have an unopened mouse s...

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Wayne's ...oft Blog — April 27 04

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Nudging

Need to move a shape or a picture into an exact position but can't get it positioned just right using the mouse? Nudging lets you move something a tiny distance so you can get it positioned precisely the way you want. How to nudge a shape: Click the shape (the shape, picture, diagram, etc....

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Wayne's ...oft Blog — April 21 04

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OneNote SP 1

A preview of OneNote Service Pack 1 is out on the web. For those who haven't heard, OneNote is a cool new note-taking application released last year as part of Office 2003. Most service packs only contain bug fixes since companies don't like surprise features and don't want to have to retr...

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Wayne's ...oft Blog — April 20 04

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Programming Jokes

The only good programming joke I know: My other car is a cdr. As you may know, car and cdr are from LISP. People are getting pretty sick of hearing this one from me though. What's your favorite programming joke? Know of any good programming joke sites? As a side note, how do you pron...

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Wayne's ...oft Blog — April 19 04

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PowerPoint Viewer Requires Installation?

Mike Niedringhaus and I had a short thread yesterday about whether the PowerPoint Viewer really requires installation. I claimed in my previous post that it didn't. Mike insisted that you had to either install PowerPoint or install the Viewer. Turns out we were both sort of right. ...

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Wayne's ...oft Blog — April 16 04